African agenda follows Latin American success
Following success in Latin America, investors are now flocking to #Africa, a region that presents high growth possibilities. Robert Macpherson, Adjunct Researcher, NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies, #NBS writes about the strong undercurrent of #economic opportunity and discusses how and why Singapore companies can become a value-adding partner for the continent.5/19/16 The University of Cambridge has proposed a new business program that may cause some sticker shock.
The four-year course is a doctorate of business and will cost students $332,000, as Times Higher Education reported. Not including room and board, that makes it one of the most expensive degrees in the world.
The “Doctor of Business Degree” will be comparable to a PhD program, a representative for Cambridge told Business Insider in an email, noting that it’s still subject to approval.
“The four-year programme’s annual fees are comparable to leading Executive MBA programmes, while also reflecting the fact that the programme will be very small and selective, demanding substantial resources for intensive teaching and support services,” the representative said.
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5/19/16 The democratized business degree that could change the game.
Lots of MBA programs promise to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs and business elites—for about $40,000 in annual tuition. Shai Reshef says he can do the same for a lot less.
After selling his education company to Kaplan, Inc., the New York-based entrepreneur in 2009 plowed the proceeds into offering tuition-free college degrees. Since then, his Pasadena-based University of the People has enrolled 3,500 students from across the world in bachelor degrees in business administration and computer science, taught online in small, intensive classes.
Now Reshef has gone a step further, with what he claims is the world’s first almost-free MBA, beginning in September. To sit all 12 exams, students will pay just $2,400—a tiny, tiny fraction of what students pay at physical schools. And there are scholarships for those who cannot afford that, with HP HPE 5.00% and Microsoft MSFT 0.83% among the donors.
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5/29/16 Pioneering UK university is trying to push even further into the corporate and overseas market.
Steve Hill was an assistant bank manager for NatWest, in the UK, when he was told by his employer that he would need to have a degree to become a branch manager.
With only a few qualifications from school, NatWest sponsored his studies, taking his career from a local branch to the City of London.
During the day, at least. At night, he continues his university studies. At present he is working on a module that he hopes will help him complete a degree in philosophy, politics and economics. He has studied almost 20 Open University courses and countless Moocs (massive open online courses).
“I started studying with the OU in 1993 and I am still studying today,” says Mr Hill. “I’m studying the Naked Soldier [dilemma]. So, if someone is wearing a uniform in war I can shoot that individual. But if I look through my rifle sights and I see a combatant not in uniform, they have the gun at the side of the tin bath and they’re having a bath in the field, can I shoot them?”
Asked what day-to-day application such ethical reasoning might have at the university’s modernist campus in Milton Keynes, 55 miles north of London, he replies: “I just think it makes you think about a complex situation and look at it in different ways. And I’ve run out of business leadership courses to study.”
It is just as well that Mr Hill is such a passionate believer in the product because a large part of his job is to turn round the university’s fortunes. The organisation has been the victim of a squeeze that began in 2011 as a series of changes in how universities are funded.
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5/18/16 Southern Illinois University Carbondale is offering a new degree to prepare people for career advancement and leadership roles in a variety of media businesses.
The College of Mass Communication and Media Arts and the College of Business are offering the joint MBA/Master of Science in Professional Media and Media Management degree beginning with the fall 2016 semester. Registration is now underway for this two-year program. It is offered on campus with some courses available online.
Participants will obtain an understanding of the global economic structure within contemporary media industries, along with conceptual and practical production skills.
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